Gergely Orosz on Engineering

Some of the most unexpected fallouts of an AWS outage: 1. Postman stopped working: an API development tool built to be an alternative to simple tools like curl. 2. Eight Sleep customers couldn’t use their beds to change positions / set or keep temperature

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